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When George Westinghouse III was born on 20 May 1883, in New York City, New York, United States, his father, George Westinghouse Jr., was 36 and his mother, Margaret Erskine Walker, was 41. He married Evelyn Violet Brocklebank in 1909, in Bootle, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom.
Their only child, George Westinghouse III, worked for his father but moved to California in 1916 and then to Canada shortly after his parents’ death. Between 1869 and 1873, George Westinghouse was issued more than 20 patents on one of the great inventions of the 19th Century, the revolutionary air brake.
George Westinghouse Jr. (October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was a prolific American inventor, engineer, and entrepreneurial industrialist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who is best known for his creation of the railway air brake and for being a pioneer in the development and use of alternating current (AC) electrical power distribution.
In 1883, Walker gave birth to the couple’s only child, a son named George Westinghouse III. The family’s Massachusetts summer home was named “Erskine Park” in Walker’s honor and served as a breezy hideaway far from industrial Pittsburgh and the Westinghouse factories.
They were married for 47 years, and had one son, George Westinghouse III, who had six children. The couple made their first home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They later acquired houses in Lenox, Massachusetts, where they summered, and in Washington, D.C.
They eventually had one son, George Westinghouse III. As Westinghouse’s small company continued to improve on his car replacer and cast steel frogs, he observed the railroads making their own changes, avoiding his patents.
Explore genealogy for George Westinghouse III born 1883 Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States died 1964 New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada including ancestors + descendants + 1 photos + more in the free family tree community.
They had one child, George Westinghouse III, born in 1884. One day not long after his marriage, Westinghouse was riding to Troy on business when his train ground to an uneven halt, nearly throwing him from his seat.
The couple had one son, George Westinghouse III, who was born on May 20, 1883. George III was educated at Yale and later married Evelyn Violet Brocklebank in Cumberland, England in 1909. George Westinghouse died on March 12, 1914 and Marguerite died a few months later on June 23.
George Westinghouse, building on his airbrake innovation, turned his attention to railroad signaling. He purchased some patents to combine with his own ideas to develop a complete electrical...